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A photograph of a 6 foot tall andropogon, cassava just planted in the foreground, borassus palms in the back, and mountains in the distance.

A general view - shows some M'tama - may not be good [image]. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

From a rock at top of escarpment. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 29, 1920]

From a rock at top of escarpment, at different angle. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 29, 1920]

From a rock at top of escarpment, at different angle. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 29, 1920]

Panorama of bay at Dar es Salam. At right the church, Pandanus - heavy leaf purple fruited nut form a prominent part as street tree. Dock and dhows, British boat with cocoanuts on the opposite bank. R.R., shops, and steamer near entrance to the…

Shows dhows in fore (our dhow). At left mangrove and dhows, banana, cocoanut - mangrove in back. City from wharf at left. Dhow wharf and fish market. Police and Immigration [?] off in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

General view, sorg[hum] at right. Elephant grass, manihot, etc. in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Track at left, path in fore. Manihot glaziovii, a dense fresh-grass growth 1-2 ft. high. Grasses just starting here. Huts at right and hill at left. Forest and mountains in back - cloud covered. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 12, 1920]

General [view] through a rather open stretch of thorn forest, grass in fore, Sansevieria - Euphorbia grape like vine - looks very much like Kenkelbosch. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 12, 1920]

Shows batatto [?] field ... grassy hill. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Shows more or less ruderal in fore. Solanum, sisal etc. - but mt. in back. A beautiful mountainous country here. Bananas show on mt. side. [Shantz tarvel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Out across acacia and Themeda like grass. This is a great open grassland, fine deep brown soil. The grasses even run up over the hill tops. This grassland looks exactly like the Transvaal grassland. (Exactly.) [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20,…

General view out across Themeda grassland with a few acacias in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Out across grass plains (wires above). A lower portion from the hill. Shows row of acacia along the river. This is almost typical of our high plains. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

A general view at same place (14 miles west of Ft. Hall). Large white worthless fig and Andropogon grassland, sugar cane shows in back. [Shantz travel journal, May 8-11, 1920]

Road, Themeda, Combretum - orchard steppe. These photos taken a short distance this side of Embu. [Shantz travel journal, May 8-11, 1920]

Shows a space cleared where Pennisetum is winnowed, chief and palaver in back. [Shantz travel journal, May 23, 1920]

General view toward the Tana river. Cleome in fore - great grass - and acacia & inselberg. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]